Poetry Back in the Woods

Poetry Back in the Woods 
Thursday November 19, 2009
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Bertram Woods Branch

Sammy Greenspan is a former waitress, lab tech, painter, pediatrician and homeschool teacher. Her 2009 chapbook, Step Back from the Closing Doors, was a Pushcart nominee. Her work appears in two 2009 anthologies, The Pudding House Gang, and Love Poems and Other Messages for Bruce Springsteen. She is the director of the Pudding House Salon monthly poetry workshop in Cleveland.

Fran Immerman is a native of Northeast Ohio, now living in Moreland Hills with her husband and three teenage children and two dogs. She began writing poetry several years ago as a way to hold and manage her grief in the wake of the deaths of both her parents, within nine months, both to cancer. Fran writes poetry with an ear toward melody.

Terry Provost is a metaphysico-political poet writing from the political perspective of Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn and Arundhati Roy, and the philosophical perspective of Richard Rorty. He was born around the corner from Herman Melville’s home in Troy, New York, and graduated with degrees in physics from St. Bonaventure and medical physics from the University of Colorado. His first book of poems, Compassionate Imperialism (and its links to terrorism), was published in 2004. He currently teaches math at Cuyahoga Community College’s Metropolitan Campus, and lives in Lakewood with his wife, Karen Cook, and their son, Jackson.